‘Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet’

Alexis Madrigal, writing for The Atlantic:

Perhaps the way, then, to recover some of the old web, before the dominance of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, isn’t to build new competitors to those companies, but to redouble our use and support of good old email.

Email — yes, email — is one way forward for a less commercial, less centralized web, and the best thing is, this beautiful cockroach of a social network is already living in all of our homes. 

★ Friday, 15 August 2014